NOW, as far as the Dragon's Lair cartoon is concerned, THAT is another story.īy the time the 80's had rolled around, the trends of Saturday Morning animation had shifted from superheros, teen detectives, and slapstick chases, to pop culture fads such as toys, cute mini-critters, and in the case of "Pac-Man".video games. My favorite episode was the one with the OK Corral and the Beanstalk. I truly would go out and buy the series were it available on DVD. he looks like a gay Lex Luther in drag, pretending to be the Fallen Anakin. He clearly resembles Lord Vader in the lamest way. i have no idea why Mezmeron was created, aside from the fact that Star Wars was in it's heydey back then. Personalities had to be created in order to make the show possible. The Pac-Man character of the video game is featureless, with no personality, much like most game characters of that era. I feel sorry for anyone who really felt a sense of true loss over the show. Yes, Pac-Man's voice was ridiculous, but like i said, this whole era and culture was completely retarded and based on junk: junk games to numb you, junk cereal based on junk games, and last but not least junk cartoons to go with junk cereal based on junk games to numb you. And Sue's make-up and voice hinting at saucy Dame-ness of that same era. Things like Clyde's derby hat as a symbol of this representing classic 1930's Thugdom. I therefore got a lot of the references that were admittedly over the heads of most little kids. Of course, it doesn't make any sense! I was lucky enough to have already been raised on the older films of Laurel & Hardy, James Cagney, and many others. I, too was psyched that they were going to make a cartoon out of it, but I loved it. Sure, we had loads of fun with it at the time, and I too played it every chance I had, whether it was in an actual arcade, at home on Atari 2600, or the table top version at a cocktail lounge. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK PAC-MAN stood for? It was just a game! A simple, stupid game. The aforementioned previous post says that the cartoon goes against things that the video game stood for. If one is going to attempt to make real sense out of the ridiculous era of early '80s cartoons based on products, then one is really barking up the wrong tree. I was in 3rd grade or something when it came out in 1982 and found that era of Saturday morning cartoons most agreeable. I am going to beg to differ with the comment already posted on here, which basically lambastes the Pac-Man cartoon. I guess you can say that despite my critical eye, I think this series is one of the best cartoons from the 80's. To this day, I have to live down the fact that I dropped out of a school play so I could stay home one evening and watch the Pac-Man Christmas Special. It was funnier and more surreal than the Flintstones, though everything had a drug-addled look to it, and it was quite bizarre to watch if you either weren't familiar with the concept of Pac-Man, or couldn't accept it. They would open a tin can, and pour dots out to mow the lawn they would "chomp". Their lives were shown in Flintstones fashion- they would do things "ordinary humans" did, but with their own twist. What set the whole series apart was the fact that everything in the show was inhuman, but led human lives. After some "drama", one or more of the Pacs (they all had their star turns, and most of the Pacs from the various video games were represented) would ingest a power pill, chomp some ghosts, and things would be safe 'til the next episode. a vaguely Gargamel-like being whose sole purpose in life was to bother the citizens of the town the Pacs lived in. (Take that as a compliment or insult as you will.) The storylines were nothing spectacular they were formulaic rip-offs of Popeye, the Smurfs, and the Flintstones- Pac-Man and/or his family would be bothered by the inept ghosts, who were henchmen of Mezmeron. As far as animation goes, I believe that this was Hanna-Barbera's best work in the 80's.
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